Uncle Smiley Goes Recycling (1972)

[Music] who is the one when the school day is done that's the kids always run un smil the the kids always they no time to waste when it's un smil uncle's the one who's always busy they know too busy working to get up and go but Uncle can never say no so unle smiley get up and go and he's a barel here he com around like a carnival he's a part of the Town Uncle when there's to be uncle is always the one no matter what happens it's to be fun so unle smile get up and un get up and [Music] hey you should have been with us last week when Uncle Smiley took us recycling took you where recycling hey I'll bet you don't even know what recycling is sure I do what is it then well it's sort of like riding a bicycle backwards wow that's dumb well what is it then Know It All Recycling means taking trash and junk and turning it back into usable things again did you know for example that the stuff newspapers and bottles and aluminum cans are made of can be used over and over again how can you do that with special machines and furnaces and things that'll melt down metal and Crush glass and things like that how do you know everybody knows silly Uncle SMY told us all about it he knows a lot about recycling [Music] [Applause] [Music] won't you come with us today we're going on the town going to GA lots of different things that can be found maybe we'll stop by to say hello and how do you do if you'd like to join with us we've got the job for you call your friends and relatives and people that you know tell them that you might be by to say hello if they've got a or two of old aluminum can noit bottles mind the Bott always made of FL and paper is made of wood some cans are aluminum and alum is always good there are places for recycling these and many more and recycling is the the worlds more and have you ever stopped to under just how many trees it takes to make the daily people always read every book and magazine is made of wood you see and wood is just another name for what was once a tree do so won't you bring your wagons and carts and paper bags bring your buckets and canvas Stacks we're collecting all cans and dirty pants bottles and paper Stacks recycling recycling Pull Your Wagon from to recycling recycl us we've used [Music] a [Music] uncle was sure worri about his car so were we but his car was just sick when cars and trucks get sick and start making all that smoke and make everything else around them sick [Music] too I bet you can't guess what we're going to do here bet you think we're going to ride on the wings or slides or something huh well why not it's a playground isn't it yeah but we're here to gather up stuff for recycling it's filled with all kinds of trash and stuff that kids have thrown away they're almost as bad as grown-ups sometimes says who says me listen lots of trash isn't really trash at all because it can be made into new things again actually everything could be used again if people really wanted to how can you tell what's trash and what can be recycled well first you've got to know what something's made of take cans for instance they can be made of aluminum or steel or even both together sometimes how do you tell them apart well a steel can has a big seam down the side and a big Ridge around the top and bottom where it was put together an all aluminum can is made in one piece and doesn't have a ridge or a big seat down the side besides aluminum cans usually say so right on the can if you can read I can read all right tab are important things to recycle too and people just throw them all over the place pretty soon they'll cover the grass and Roads and everything in the world what about bottles they're all recyclable even throwaway ones just make sure you get all the metal off from around the top of the bottles Pliers are good for that and take off the paper too you can't mix up the glass with metal or [Music] paper what are you going to do with old tires different companies are trying to see if they can be used to build roads yeah yeah won't you come with us today we're going on the town going to GA lots of different things that can be found maybe we'll stop by to say hello and how you do if you'd like to join with us we've got the job for you there are many things that people usually grow away thinks the garbage man comes in his truck to H away thrown together in a pile A pile in garbage cans no one wants to take the time or touch them with their hands but these are often things that be used and us and us again that can be crushed or melted down start again there's no need to take your trash to Simply throw away everybody's learning how Recycling and P so won't you bring your wag and Cs and paper bags bring your buckets and canvas sacks we're collecting all cans and dirty pants bottles Rubber and paper Stacks recy recycling Pull Your Wagon from to recycl recycling using things we [Music] used when you see an old can on the Street what do you do do you kick it fur down the street like many do do you simply pass it by and leave it lying there let me tell you what to do now if you really care so won't you bring your waget and Cs and paper bags bring your buckets and canv sacks we're collecting all cans and dirty pants bottles Rubber and paper Stacks recycling recycling Pull Your Wagon from door to door recycling recycling using things we used [Music] no [Music] [Applause] [Music] well here we are at the recycling pickup station from here everything gets collected in trucks and hauled off to the recycling plants where gets converted back into usable stuff again Uncle SMY knew the station manager he was a nice man and he helped us unload all our things won't you come with us today we're going on the town going to lots of different things that can be found maybe we'll stop by to say hello how you do if you like to join with us we've got the job for you so won't you bring your wagons and carts and paper bags bring your buckets and canvas sacks we're collecting all cans and dirty panss bottles Rubber and paper Stacks recycling recycling Pull Your Wagon from to recycling recycling using things we've used [Music] before the station manager's job is to make sure that all the stuff goes with the right bin and doesn't get mixed up boy if he had seen some remember the mixups we'd been in that day he' probably closed up early and left before we got there with Uncle Smiley along you can be sure that there will never be a dull moment are you through now well yeah that was the end of our trip thank goodness woo [Music] la a